tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224413093689973556.post2350174242736128293..comments2018-02-18T22:22:10.791-08:00Comments on The Road Less Traveled: Mozambique is Everything that's Wrong with Africa:Diamednoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224413093689973556.post-6271823674661856492016-07-01T21:52:33.365-07:002016-07-01T21:52:33.365-07:00If you want to change the world using means that e...If you want to change the world using means that even a lone individual could achieve in the present day without relying on any new technology, how about this?<br /><br />1) Get rich. Really rich. As rich as possible. If you can&#39;t get rich enough, save what you can and pass your dream on to your children, or an unrelated heir who shares your dream, and continue accumulating money.<br /><br />2) When you have enough money, buy and build a seastead out in international waters. Renounce your citizenship and declare your seastead the new country of Atlantis. Write up the entire constitution from scratch from just your lone mind. Who can argue with you? The whole country belongs to you.<br /><br />3) Invite in married couples who are loyal and devoted to the cause to populate your new country under the understanding that you are the dictator and they will simply abide by the pre-set law code without question. Be sure to bring in as many enforcers of the law you can in terms of men who agree with you to begin with and would love to see this new nation exist as written.<br /><br />4) Let the children be raised in a healthy environment and give them a healthy education, and watch Atlantis bloom. Whenever you need more territory to fit your larger population, just add another metal section to the seastead. The sea&#39;s the limit.<br /><br />5) If you can&#39;t find anything economically fruitful to do on the seastead, just get so rich that you can live off interest from your previous capital and use a sustainable amount to support everyone on the island. The important thing is the right to set your own law code, not being productive. Everything should be able to naturally follow from there, because your law code would be infinitely better than all the alternatives. I imagine entrepreneurs would find scientific innovation easier in the seastead and the workers more intelligent and diligent than they can find elsewhere. (No drugs, drinking, tattoos, piercings, smoking, gambling, eugenic breeding for intelligence, a sense of purpose and camaraderie that we seasteaders are the start of a new humanity and we need to prove to the world our greatness, etc would make for a really nice workforce.) Eventually Atlantis would be the seat of many productive industries, human capital can&#39;t fail in the long run.<br /><br />6) Hand power over to a deserving heir before you die and make sure he understands that never again can you ever allow diverse immigrants to pollute your gene pool and your culture pool in this new Atlantis, the last best hope of mankind. And make sure women are content with their natural place this time, having and raising children, or else the extinction level birth rates will simply pursue you to the new country just like they&#39;ve wiped out the modern world. Avoid those two existential threats and I think it should be smooth sailing from there.<br /><br />7) When spaceflight does mature as a technology, take the whole population of Atlantis away on a spacecraft to the furthest corners of the universe, such that humanity can never have the power to physically stop your dream again. The greatest threat to Atlantis would always be genocidal haters refusing to tolerate your society from even existing, and the more powerful and prosperous and populated Atlantis becomes, the greater the risk their hatred will boil over and just nuke you all, so the sooner you leave Earth behind the better.Diamedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17157418049723887419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224413093689973556.post-25777906867936626392016-07-01T08:45:29.304-07:002016-07-01T08:45:29.304-07:00&quot;At this moment, there&#39;s nothing anyone c...&quot;At this moment, there&#39;s nothing anyone can do to rectify the state as a whole.&quot;<br />Sorry, but aren&#39;t you just admitting defeat? I mean, maybe you have a point, but I don&#39;t like the idea of the future of our race being at the mercy of global events. Maybe if we just think harder we could find a workable solution.<br /><br />I like your idea of spaceflight and colonizing other planets, but virtual reality? are you willing to live in the matrix, in a world that is not real? Don&#39;t forget that virtual reality depends on physical reality, so why not create a physical reality worth living?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224413093689973556.post-32298704234404487752016-06-30T13:07:41.779-07:002016-06-30T13:07:41.779-07:00At this moment, there&#39;s nothing anyone can do ...At this moment, there&#39;s nothing anyone can do to rectify the state as a whole. Maybe a series of teachable moments will arrive that sways public opinion back towards us, but until then we&#39;re just too outnumbered to do anything but conform and submit, outwardly, to the public will.<br /><br />Individually, it&#39;s still possible to live an honorable life and try to raise an honorable family, and there&#39;s tons of fulfilling entertainment options to enrich that humble dream. Shrink the size of your world down to a small enough pebble and it can start to look like the good old days when the whole world was healthy and sane.<br /><br />However, the biggest hope I see is spaceflight or virtual reality giving us access to an independent world where we can develop freely and finally separate from the politically correct system that currently rules the world and defines all our options. Live long enough and we could start over from scratch, free of all our previous mistakes, with pure and passionate people only as our companions. With advances in medicine we may live a lot longer than we currently expect, too, which would make these possibilities all the more probable.Diamedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17157418049723887419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5224413093689973556.post-6782267499427786552016-06-30T11:09:43.468-07:002016-06-30T11:09:43.468-07:00I&#39;m trying to figure out what&#39;s the best t...I&#39;m trying to figure out what&#39;s the best thing one can do at this point of degeneracy. I don&#39;t think any individual contribution will help the state of affairs. Are we just doomed?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com